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  • Emily Geminder

    Emily Geminder

    Lecturer, English

    BioEmily Geminder is the author of Dead Girls and Other Stories, winner of the Dzanc Books Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in AGNI, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. A 2023-2025 Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction, her writing has been supported by Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Center for Feminist Research. She currently teaches creative writing at Stanford.

  • Michael Genesereth

    Michael Genesereth

    Associate Professor of Computer Science

    BioGenesereth is most known for his work on Computational Logic and applications of that work in Enterprise Management, Computational Law, and General Game Playing. He is one of the founders of Teknowledge, CommerceNet, Mergent Systems, and Symbium. Genesereth is the director of the Logic Group at Stanford and the founder and research director of CodeX - the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics.

  • Matthew Gentzkow

    Matthew Gentzkow

    Landau Professor of Technology and the Economy and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

    BioMatthew Gentzkow is the Landau Professor of Technology and the Economy at Stanford University and the Faculty Director of Stanford Impact Labs. He studies the economics and social impact of media and technology industries. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Econometric Society, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and former Editor of American Economic Review: Insights. He received the 2014 John Bates Clark Medal, given by the American Economic Association to the American economist under the age of forty who has made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Other awards include the Calvó-Armengol International Prize, the John Von Neumann Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes for Health, and Sloan Foundation, and a Faculty Excellence Award for teaching. He studied at Harvard University where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1997, a master's degree in 2002, and a PhD in 2004.

  • Trevor Getz

    Trevor Getz

    Visiting Professor, African and African American Studies

    BioTrevor Getz is an interpreter of the past. His work focuses on history education – especially in the field of world history – as well as the social history of Africa. He is the author or co-author of eleven volumes, including Abina and the Important Men, which won the 2014 James Harvey Robinson Prize. His work has been published by Duke UP, Oxford UP, Ohio UP, Bloomsbury, Prentice Hall, Westview, and James Currey. It has also appeared in The American Historical Review, The Journal of West African History, Slavery and Abolition, African Economic History, and Ghana Studies. Trevor has also written produced a number of documentaries and historical films which have garnered festival prizes. He is the recipient of the American Historical Association’s 2020 Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award. Aside from written text, his other historical work resides in the realms of comics and Lego.